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The voluntary interruption of pregnancy for rape up to seven months of gestation would hardly have 70 votes in the plenary session of the National Assembly. Spokesmen for the five legislative benches anticipate that the text should be modified.
The Justice Commission, on January 10, approved the text of article 19 of the bill that guarantees the voluntary interruption of pregnancy of girls, adolescents and women in the event of rape, and with six votes it determined that the maximum term for the Medical intervention will be 28 weeks’ gestation for women over 18 years of age and no term for girls, adolescents under 18 years of age and women with disabilities.
Assembly members propose that up to seven months of pregnancy can be interrupted in case of rape and neither feminists nor pro-life agree
Although the report of the entire project continues to be debated within the table, legislators from the benches anticipate that the text of Article 19 should be revised, since for some it constitutes an extreme and for others it is something unthinkable, it is too much, they even talk about that it would be a crime to allow an abortion for rape at seven months.
In the correista bench Union for Hope (UNES), which weeks ago decided to release its legislators so that on the issue of the interruption of pregnancy due to rape they vote in accordance with their convictions, its coordinator Paola Cabezas considers that establishing the 28 weeks as the term for the interruption will give a turn in the plenary session and that even the commission will adopt a position before sending the final report.
In his opinion, this 28-week period is generating comments for and against, but if the report is passed with that temporality in plenary, there will be voices that will propose other types of alternatives. He affirmed that, personally, establishing 28 weeks is a lot, because medically it is said that up to 20 weeks could be analyzed.
Rafael Lucero, who coordinates the Pachakutik bench, specified that he personally does not agree that the law establishes that a pregnancy can be interrupted by rape up to seven months of gestation. “This is already a crime,” he said.
He added that his bench knows that temporality is a complicated issue and that many are for the thesis that there must be the interruption of pregnancy due to rape, but with a maximum time of up to twelve weeks.
The bench, once the final report of the project is ready, will meet to make a resolution, although it insisted that including seven months in the project articles is too long and surely that will not happen in plenary session. In addition, he said that the term for the termination of pregnancy due to rape should not have differences between girls, adolescents and women.
On sensitive issues such as abortion, the legislators of the Social Christian Party bench have freedom of conscience to act, affirmed the coordinator of the bloc, Esteban Torres; However, he said that he spoke with other co-leaders who have a pro-abortion position, and no one likes the report of the Justice Commission that establishes abortion until week 28.
This deadline is unthinkable, stressed Torres, who said that it is not yet known whether the entire bench will have a unanimous position on this issue. “There is an indignation and annoyance of the assembly members, even of those who are in favor of abortion, with the text of the commission,” he insisted.
What is in the background, in this debate, is that those who are behind this approval never wanted to set any type of deadline, because they wanted it to be free, but this week they established a 28-week deadline for women over 18 years of age old, and I think they still do not have the votes, he said.
From the Democratic Left, Marlon Cadena commented that establishing 28 weeks of gestation in order to guarantee an abortion for rape is a reprehensible situation.
He said that the bloc will surely carry out an in-depth analysis of the position of the bloc’s delegates before the Justice Commission, and that there will surely be a resolution from the bench and that it cannot go to extremes such as the temporality raised about the interruption abortion, taking into account medical criteria.
He indicated that it is most likely that the assembly members of the bloc will be left free to act on this issue and vote in accordance with their conscience.
The official legislator, Nathalie Arias, commented that the National Agreement Group (BAN) has a pending meeting to be able to define a joint position. However, their opinion is that, after having analyzed the sentence and closely followed the development of the sessions of the Justice Commission, the proposed 28-week period would ignore the mandate of the Constitutional Court.
Even, he said, it exceeds the term that meets the criteria of the World Health Organization in its Guide to Safe Abortion, second edition. Therefore, it is necessary to demand that the sentence be carried out, since it provides that the rights of the girl, adolescent or pregnant woman resulting from rape and the unborn be harmonized.
Thus, the technical criterion is to establish a maximum period of 12 weeks for children under 14 years of age and 6 for those over 14 years of age, considering that any medical procedure that exceeds that time would entail greater risks for women and much more aggressive methods. for fetal death .. (I)
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